This is a guest post from Deltek’s GovWin IQ.
Deltek recently published an in-depth GovWin IQ analysis of the 2017 updates to NAICS code employee count size standards. SBA uses these standards to determine whether a business qualifies as a small business and is eligible for its set aside programs.
Here is a summary of those changes, reprinted with permission from the GovWin IQ report:
1. SBA increases small business size standards for NAICS Sector 31-33, Manufacturing
The SBA has issued a final rule to do the following:
- Increase small business size standards for 209industries in NAICS Sector 31-33, Manufacturing.
- Modify the size standard for NAICS 324110, Petroleum Refiners, by
- increasing the refining capacity component of the size standard to 200,000 barrels per calendar day for businesses that are primarily engaged in petroleum refining; and by eliminating the requirement that 90percent of the output to be delivered be refined by the successful bidder from either crude oil or bona fide feed stocks.
- Update footnote 5 to NAICS 326211 to reflect current Census Product Classification Codes 3262111 and 3262113.
SBA estimates that about 1,250 additional firms will become small because of revised size standards for the 209 industries in NAICS Sector 31-33.
2. SBA increases employee based size standards for industries in NAICS Sector 42, Wholesale Trade, and NAICS Sector 44 45, Retail Trade
The SBA has issued a final rule that:
- Increases employee based size standards for 46 industries in North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Sector 42, Wholesale Trade; Increases the employee-based size standard for one industry in NAICS Sector 44-45, Retail Trade; Retains the current size standards in the remaining industries in those sectors; Retains the current 500-employee size standard for Federal procurement of supplies under the non-manufacturer rule (13 CFR 121.406).
SBA reviewed all 71 industries in NAICS Sector 42 and two industries in NAICS Sector 44-45 that have employee-based size standards as part of its ongoing comprehensive size standards review as required by the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010.
Nearly 4,000 more firms in Sectors 42 and 44-45 will become small and therefore eligible for financial assistance under the revised employee based size standards. These revisions do not affect federal procurement programs. Newly eligible small businesses will generally benefit from a variety of Federal regulatory and other programs that use SBA’s size standards. Such benefits may include, but are not limited to, reduced fees, less paperwork, or exemption from compliance or other regulatory requirements.
3. SBA updates employee-based small business size standards for industries that are not part of Manufacturing (NAICS Sector 31-33), Wholesale Trade (NAICS Sector 42), or Retail Trade (NAICS Sector 44-45)
The SBA has issued a final rule to modify employee-based small business size standards for 36 industries and “exceptions” in SBA’s table of size standards that are not part of NAICS Sector 31-33 (Manufacturing), Sector 42 (Wholesale Trade), or Sectors 44-45 (Retail Trade). Specifically, the rule
- Increases 30 size standards for industries and three “exceptions.”
- Decreases size standards from 500 employees to 250 employees for three industries, namely NAICS 212113 (Anthracite Mining); NAICS 212222 (Silver Ore Mining), and NAICS 212291 (Uranium-Radium-Vanadium Ore Mining).
- Maintains the Information Technology Value Added Resellers (ITVAR) “exception” under NAICS 541519 (Other Computer Related Services) as follows:
- It retains the 150-employee size standard; and it amends footnote 18 to SBA’s table of size standards by adding the requirement that the supply component of small business set-aside ITVAR contracts (e., computer hardware and software) must comply with the nonmanufacturing performance requirements or nonmanufacturer rule.
- Eliminates the Offshore Marine Air Transportation Services “exception” under NAICS 481211 (Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation), and NAICS 481212 (Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation).
- Eliminates the Offshore Marine Services “exception” for industries in NAICS Subsector 483 (Water Transportation), and their $30.5 million receipts-based size standards.
- Removes footnote 15 (the “exception” to Subsector 483) from the table of size standards.
SBA estimates that about 375 additional firms may become small because of increased size standards for the 30 industries and three “exceptions” covered by this rule.
The revised size standards were effective as of February 26, 2016.
Source: SBA website; SBA’s final rule RIN3245-AG51 Regulations.gov (effective February 26, 2016)
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